Conversations
Readings for Writing
6th Edition
Published on 19. May 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
992 pages
978-0-321-31741-4 (ISBN)
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With more than 130 readings and 24 pages of visual arguments, Conversations offers an extraordinary variety of authors, genres, voices, and viewpoints on important contemporary civic issues.
Touching on issues that affect students both as individuals and as citizens, the readings and visuals invite students to join important civic "conversations" through their own writing. For each issue addressed, Conversations offers not just one or two selections, but several-reminding students that no issue has just one or two sides, but usually involves a wide range of voices. Frequently, selections comment on and argue with other selections, demonstrating that writing is a social exchange, and that much writing is a response to what we read. The images included in this new edition also remind students that we regularly "read"-interpret and respond to-not only words, but visual arguments found in photographs, artworks, cartoons, advertisements, and websites.
Touching on issues that affect students both as individuals and as citizens, the readings and visuals invite students to join important civic "conversations" through their own writing. For each issue addressed, Conversations offers not just one or two selections, but several-reminding students that no issue has just one or two sides, but usually involves a wide range of voices. Frequently, selections comment on and argue with other selections, demonstrating that writing is a social exchange, and that much writing is a response to what we read. The images included in this new edition also remind students that we regularly "read"-interpret and respond to-not only words, but visual arguments found in photographs, artworks, cartoons, advertisements, and websites.
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6th edition
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English
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United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
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953 gr
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Content
Preface.
Introduction.
Why Write?
How to Read This Book-And an Example.
Visual Conversations: Reading Images as Texts.
I. EDUCATION.
Introduction.
Is Public Education Working?
E.B. White, EDUCATION.
Paul Peterson, A LIBERAL CASE FOR VOUCHERS.
Martin Carnoy, DO SCHOOL VOUCHERS IMPROVE SCHOOL PERFORMANCE?
Marc Fisher, TO EACH ITS OWN (charter schools).
W. Norton Grubb, THE NEW VOCATIONALISM: WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT COULD BE.
Larry Cuban, MAKING PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUSINESS-LIKE. AGAIN.
Thomas Toch, DIVIDE AND CONQUER: HOW BREAKING UP BIG HIGH SCHOOLS CAN BE THE KEY TO EDUCATION REFORM.
Alexander Russo, WHEN SCHOOL CHOICE ISN'T.
Rachel S. Cox, IS THE HOME SCHOOLING MOVEMENT UNDERMINING PUBLIC EDUCATION?
Visual Conversations 1: The Place(s) of Education: Educational Settings.
What's College For?
Alice Walker, EVERYDAY USE.
W. J. Reeves, COLLEGE ISN'T FOR EVERYONE.
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, THE CHALLENGE OF LIBERTY.
Ralph Ketcham, A RATIONALE FOR CIVIC EDUCATION.
John Searle, THE CASE FOR A TRADITIONAL LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION.
What Does It Mean to be Literate. Ben Franklin, from AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Frederick Douglass, from NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
Andy Carvin, MIND THE GAP: THE DIGITAL DIVIDE AS THE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE OF THE NEW MILLENIUM.
Solveig Singleton and Lucas Mast, HOW DOES THE EMPTY GLASS FILL: A MODERN PHILOSOPHY OF THE DIGITAL DIVIDE.
Paul Gorski, UNDERSTANDING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE FROM A MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION FRAMEWORK.
II. MEDIA MATTERS.
Introduction.
Big Media: Who owns the news? Robert McChesney and Eric Alterman, WAGING THE MEDIA BATTLE.
Dell Champlin, Janet Knoedler, OPERATING IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST OR IN PURSUIT OF PRIVATE PROFITS? NEWS IN THE AGE OF MEDIA CONSOLIDATION.
Tom Goldstein, DOES BIG MEAN BAD?
Ronnie Dugger, CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF THE MEDIA.
Nick Gillespie, THE MYTH OF MEDIA MONOPOLY.
Pew Research Center, BOTTOM-LINE PRESSURES NOW HURTING COVERAGE, SAY JOURNALISTS.
Brent Cunningham, ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE: CLASS.
Alternative Media: A New Free Press? Diane Owen, EFFECTS OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA ON DEMOCRATIC ATTITUDES.
Kimberly Melzer, Brett Mueller, and Russell M. Tisinger, ENGAGING THE ELECTRONIC ELECTORATE.
Matt Welch, Mallory Jensen, Jacqueline Reeves, BLOGWORLD AND ITS GRAVITY.
Gerald M. Starr, RECLAIMING PUBLIC BROADCASTING.
Andrew Boyd, THE WEB REWIRES THE MOVEMENT.
Joshua Kurlantzick, DICTATORSHIP.COM.
Visual Conversations 2: Virtual Communities, Real Politics in the New Media.
Two-Way Media: Is Talk Radio Good for Democracy? American Demographics, OPENING UP THE CONVERSATION.
Sara O'Sullivan, THE ILLUSION OF CONSUMER PARTICIPATION: THE CASE OF TALK RADIO.
L. Brent Bozell III, TALK RADIO: MEDIA HATE DEMOCRACY IN ACTION.
Jose Marquez, TALK, RADIO, AND DEMOCRACY.
Thom Hartmann, TALKING BACK TO TALK RADIO: FAIRNESS, DEMOCRACY, AND PROFITS.
III. GENDER.
Introduction.
How Can Gender be Defined? Sojourner Truth, AIN'T I A WOMAN (look for other versions).
Susan Glaspell, TRIFLES.
Scott Russell Sanders, THE MEN WE CARRY IN OUR MINDS.
Betsy Lucal, WHAT IT MEANS TO BE GENDERED ME: LIFE ON THE BOUNDARIES OF A DICHOTOMOUS GENDER SYSTEM.
John Derbyshire, THE ABOLITION OF SEX.
Visual Conversations 3: Images of Gender in the Arts.
Is English Sexist? Beverly Gross, BITCH.
Deborah Tannen, CROSS TALK.
Sherryl Kleinman, WHY SEXIST LANGUAGE MATTERS.
David Sally, GENDERATOR I.I: A MODISH PROPOSAL.
"YOU'LL JUST LOVE THE WAY HE HANDLES" (New Yorker cartoon).
Does Pornography Cause Harm to Women? PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON OBSCENITY AND PORNOGRAPHY (majority report).
PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON OBSCENITY AND PORNOGRAPHY (minority report).
Susan Brownmiller, LET'S PUT PORNOGRAPY BACK IN THE CLOSET.
John Irving, PORNOGRAPHY AND THE NEW PURITANS.
Andrea Dworkin, REPLY TO JOHN IRVING.
Nadine Strossen, THE PERILS OF PORNOPHOBIA.
Robert Jensen, THE PAINFUL TRUTH ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY.
IV. REVOLUTIONS IN MARRIAGE AND FAMILY.
Introduction.
What is a Marriage?
David Masci, IS TRADITIONAL MATRIMONY GOING OUT OF STYLE?
Margaret Mead, CAN MARRIAGE BE FOR LIFE?
Steven L. Nock, THE PROBLEM WITH MARRIAGE.
Jennifer Marshall, MARRIAGE: WHAT SOCIAL SCIENCE SAYS AND DOESN'T SAY.
Sherry Hite, BRINGING DEMOCRACY HOME.
Gregory Corso, MARRIAGE.
What is a Family? Ellen Willis, WHY I'M NOT PRO-FAMILY.
Claudia Walls, THE CASE FOR STAYING AT HOME.
Barbara LeBey, AMERICAN FAMILIES ARE DRIFTING APART.
Stephanie Coontz, HOW IGNORING HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE CAN PUT KIDS AT RISK.
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, DAN QUAYLE WAS RIGHT.
Iris Marion Young, MAKING SINGLE MOTHERHOOD NORMAL.
Jean Bethke Elshatain, SINGLE MOTHERHOOD: A RESPONSE TO IRIS YOUNG.
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBLITIES: A RESPONSE TO IRIS YOUNG.
Iris Marion Young, RESPONSE TO ESHTAIN AND STEINFELS.
Will America Accept Gay Marriages and Gay Families? Dan Gilgoff, THE RISE OF THE GAY FAMILY.
Rick Santorum, AMERICANS MUST PRESERVE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE.
Adam Tenney, WHOSE FAMILY VALUES?
Ellen Goodman, SHOWING US THE POWER OF MARRIAGE.
Barbara Findlen, IS MARRIAGE THE ANSWER?
Andrew Sullivan, HERE COMES THE GROOM.
Hadley Arkes, THE CLOSET STRAIGHT.
Anna Quindlen, EVAN'S TWO MOMS.
Victoria A. Brownworth, THE LIMITS OF FAMILY.
Visual Conversations 4: Gay Marriage Comes Out of the Closet and into the Public Eye.
V. CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES.
Introduction.
Conformity and Activism: What does Democratic Citizenship Require? Aristotle, THE BASIS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE from THE POLITICS.
Alexis De Tocqueville, RESPECT FOR LAW IN THE UNITED STATES and THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY, from DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA.
Henry David Thoreau, CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.
Mahatma Ghandi, LETTER TO LORD IRWIN.
PUBLIC STATEMENT BY EIGHT ALABAMA CLERGYMEN.
Martin Luther King, LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL.
Christine Woyshner, MOTHERHOOD, ACTIVISM, AND SOCIAL REFORM.
Julie Quiroz-Martinez, LET FREEDOM ROLL.
Douglas Henton, John Melville, Kim Walesh, THE RISE OF THE NEW CIVIC REVOLUTIONARIES: ANSWERING THE CALL TO STEWARDSHIP IN OUR TIMES.
What is the Scope of Government Regulation I?
Legislating Information, Guns, and Tobacco. Bill Nelson, THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY.
John Poindexter, THE NEED FOR INFORMATION AWARENESS.
Paul Starobin, DAWN OF THE DADDY STATE.
Ray C. Spencer, CAN WE CURB THE PRIVACY INVADERS?
American Library Association, RESOLUTION ON THE USA PATRIOT ACT AND RELATED MEASURES THAT INFRINGE ON THE RIGHTS OF LIBRARY USERS.
Elizabeth Swazey, ON WOMEN AND HANDGUNS.
Robert Goldwin, GUN CONTROL IS CONSTITUTIONAL.
RESPONSES TO ROBERT GOLDWIN.
Screen shot: WOMEN AGAINST GUN CONTROL HOMEPAGE.
2 Screen shots: National Rifle Association: DON'T EDIT THE BILL OF RIGHTS.
Douglas Bettcher and Chitra Subramaniam, THE NECESSITY OF GLOBAL TOBACCO REGULATIONS.
Walter E. Williams, NAZI TACTICS.
Visual Conversations 5: The Varied Faces of Activism.
What is the Scope of Government Regulation II?
Who is Watching What We Eat?
Eric Schlosser, FAST FOOD NATION.
Charles Stein, IN A SUPERSIZED WORLD, REGULATORY INDIGESTION.
Ninos P. Malek, FAST FOOD AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
Susan Llewelyn, THOSE EXTRA POUNDS: ARE THEY GOVERNMENT'S BUSINESS?
Walter E.Williams, WHOSE BUSINESS IS IT?
James Matorin, OBESITY AWARENESS CAMPAIGN NEEDED, BUT REGULATIONS WON'T CURB FAST FOOD.
How Does Social Class Affect Crime and Punishment? Ed Mead, REFLECTIONS ON CRIME AND CLASS.
Christian Parenti, CRIME AS SOCIAL CONTROL.
Patrick Leahy, CONGRESS SHOULD PASS LEGISLATION TO LOWER FEDERALSENTENCES FOR CRACK COCAINE OFFENDERS.
Larry D. Thompson, CONGRESS SHOULD NOT PASS LEGISLATION TO LOWER FEDERAL SENTENCES FOR CRACK COCAINE OFFENDERS.
Jeffrey H. Reiman, from THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET PRISON.
Richard Johnston, THE BATTLE AGAINST WHITE-COLLAR CRIME.
VI. SCIENCE AND SOCIETY.
Our Faith in Science.
Jonathan Swift, from GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, BOOK 3, CHAP 2.
Dorothy Nelkin, THE SCIENTIFIC MYSTIQUE.
Murial Lederman, SCIENCE IS A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE.
L.H. Neese, SCIENCE VS. RELIGION: THE CHALLENGE OF INTERPRETATION.
Is Genetic Engineering a Threat, or a Moral Imperative? Kenan Malik, THE MORAL CLONE.
Kenneth R. Weiss, IT CAME FROM THE GENE LAB.
David B Sandalow, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND WORLD HUNGER.
OPEN LETTER FROM WORLD SCIENTISTS TO ALL GOVERNMENTS CONCERNING GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS.
Richard Manning, SUPERORGANICS.
Ron Reagan, ADDRESS TO THE 2004 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION.
IMAGE: NANCY REAGAN AND MICHAEL J. FOX SUPPORT STEM CELL RESEARCH.
Steven Milloy, RON REAGAN WRONG ON STEM CELLS.
Richard M. Doerflinger, DON'T CLONE RON REAGAN'S AGENDA.
At What Price Wilderness? John Muir, SAVE HETCH HETCHY VALLEY.
Wallace Stegner, A WILDERNESS LETTER.
GREENPEACE HOMEPAGE.
William Cronon, THE TROUBLE WITH WILDERNESS.
Samuel P. Hays, RESPONSE TO WILLIAM CRONON.
Bill McKibben, THE PROBLEM WITH WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY.
Visual Conversations 6: Picturing the Landscape.
Introduction.
Why Write?
How to Read This Book-And an Example.
Visual Conversations: Reading Images as Texts.
I. EDUCATION.
Introduction.
Is Public Education Working?
E.B. White, EDUCATION.
Paul Peterson, A LIBERAL CASE FOR VOUCHERS.
Martin Carnoy, DO SCHOOL VOUCHERS IMPROVE SCHOOL PERFORMANCE?
Marc Fisher, TO EACH ITS OWN (charter schools).
W. Norton Grubb, THE NEW VOCATIONALISM: WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT COULD BE.
Larry Cuban, MAKING PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUSINESS-LIKE. AGAIN.
Thomas Toch, DIVIDE AND CONQUER: HOW BREAKING UP BIG HIGH SCHOOLS CAN BE THE KEY TO EDUCATION REFORM.
Alexander Russo, WHEN SCHOOL CHOICE ISN'T.
Rachel S. Cox, IS THE HOME SCHOOLING MOVEMENT UNDERMINING PUBLIC EDUCATION?
Visual Conversations 1: The Place(s) of Education: Educational Settings.
What's College For?
Alice Walker, EVERYDAY USE.
W. J. Reeves, COLLEGE ISN'T FOR EVERYONE.
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, THE CHALLENGE OF LIBERTY.
Ralph Ketcham, A RATIONALE FOR CIVIC EDUCATION.
John Searle, THE CASE FOR A TRADITIONAL LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION.
What Does It Mean to be Literate. Ben Franklin, from AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Frederick Douglass, from NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
Andy Carvin, MIND THE GAP: THE DIGITAL DIVIDE AS THE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE OF THE NEW MILLENIUM.
Solveig Singleton and Lucas Mast, HOW DOES THE EMPTY GLASS FILL: A MODERN PHILOSOPHY OF THE DIGITAL DIVIDE.
Paul Gorski, UNDERSTANDING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE FROM A MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION FRAMEWORK.
II. MEDIA MATTERS.
Introduction.
Big Media: Who owns the news? Robert McChesney and Eric Alterman, WAGING THE MEDIA BATTLE.
Dell Champlin, Janet Knoedler, OPERATING IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST OR IN PURSUIT OF PRIVATE PROFITS? NEWS IN THE AGE OF MEDIA CONSOLIDATION.
Tom Goldstein, DOES BIG MEAN BAD?
Ronnie Dugger, CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF THE MEDIA.
Nick Gillespie, THE MYTH OF MEDIA MONOPOLY.
Pew Research Center, BOTTOM-LINE PRESSURES NOW HURTING COVERAGE, SAY JOURNALISTS.
Brent Cunningham, ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE: CLASS.
Alternative Media: A New Free Press? Diane Owen, EFFECTS OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA ON DEMOCRATIC ATTITUDES.
Kimberly Melzer, Brett Mueller, and Russell M. Tisinger, ENGAGING THE ELECTRONIC ELECTORATE.
Matt Welch, Mallory Jensen, Jacqueline Reeves, BLOGWORLD AND ITS GRAVITY.
Gerald M. Starr, RECLAIMING PUBLIC BROADCASTING.
Andrew Boyd, THE WEB REWIRES THE MOVEMENT.
Joshua Kurlantzick, DICTATORSHIP.COM.
Visual Conversations 2: Virtual Communities, Real Politics in the New Media.
Two-Way Media: Is Talk Radio Good for Democracy? American Demographics, OPENING UP THE CONVERSATION.
Sara O'Sullivan, THE ILLUSION OF CONSUMER PARTICIPATION: THE CASE OF TALK RADIO.
L. Brent Bozell III, TALK RADIO: MEDIA HATE DEMOCRACY IN ACTION.
Jose Marquez, TALK, RADIO, AND DEMOCRACY.
Thom Hartmann, TALKING BACK TO TALK RADIO: FAIRNESS, DEMOCRACY, AND PROFITS.
III. GENDER.
Introduction.
How Can Gender be Defined? Sojourner Truth, AIN'T I A WOMAN (look for other versions).
Susan Glaspell, TRIFLES.
Scott Russell Sanders, THE MEN WE CARRY IN OUR MINDS.
Betsy Lucal, WHAT IT MEANS TO BE GENDERED ME: LIFE ON THE BOUNDARIES OF A DICHOTOMOUS GENDER SYSTEM.
John Derbyshire, THE ABOLITION OF SEX.
Visual Conversations 3: Images of Gender in the Arts.
Is English Sexist? Beverly Gross, BITCH.
Deborah Tannen, CROSS TALK.
Sherryl Kleinman, WHY SEXIST LANGUAGE MATTERS.
David Sally, GENDERATOR I.I: A MODISH PROPOSAL.
"YOU'LL JUST LOVE THE WAY HE HANDLES" (New Yorker cartoon).
Does Pornography Cause Harm to Women? PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON OBSCENITY AND PORNOGRAPHY (majority report).
PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON OBSCENITY AND PORNOGRAPHY (minority report).
Susan Brownmiller, LET'S PUT PORNOGRAPY BACK IN THE CLOSET.
John Irving, PORNOGRAPHY AND THE NEW PURITANS.
Andrea Dworkin, REPLY TO JOHN IRVING.
Nadine Strossen, THE PERILS OF PORNOPHOBIA.
Robert Jensen, THE PAINFUL TRUTH ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY.
IV. REVOLUTIONS IN MARRIAGE AND FAMILY.
Introduction.
What is a Marriage?
David Masci, IS TRADITIONAL MATRIMONY GOING OUT OF STYLE?
Margaret Mead, CAN MARRIAGE BE FOR LIFE?
Steven L. Nock, THE PROBLEM WITH MARRIAGE.
Jennifer Marshall, MARRIAGE: WHAT SOCIAL SCIENCE SAYS AND DOESN'T SAY.
Sherry Hite, BRINGING DEMOCRACY HOME.
Gregory Corso, MARRIAGE.
What is a Family? Ellen Willis, WHY I'M NOT PRO-FAMILY.
Claudia Walls, THE CASE FOR STAYING AT HOME.
Barbara LeBey, AMERICAN FAMILIES ARE DRIFTING APART.
Stephanie Coontz, HOW IGNORING HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE CAN PUT KIDS AT RISK.
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, DAN QUAYLE WAS RIGHT.
Iris Marion Young, MAKING SINGLE MOTHERHOOD NORMAL.
Jean Bethke Elshatain, SINGLE MOTHERHOOD: A RESPONSE TO IRIS YOUNG.
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBLITIES: A RESPONSE TO IRIS YOUNG.
Iris Marion Young, RESPONSE TO ESHTAIN AND STEINFELS.
Will America Accept Gay Marriages and Gay Families? Dan Gilgoff, THE RISE OF THE GAY FAMILY.
Rick Santorum, AMERICANS MUST PRESERVE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE.
Adam Tenney, WHOSE FAMILY VALUES?
Ellen Goodman, SHOWING US THE POWER OF MARRIAGE.
Barbara Findlen, IS MARRIAGE THE ANSWER?
Andrew Sullivan, HERE COMES THE GROOM.
Hadley Arkes, THE CLOSET STRAIGHT.
Anna Quindlen, EVAN'S TWO MOMS.
Victoria A. Brownworth, THE LIMITS OF FAMILY.
Visual Conversations 4: Gay Marriage Comes Out of the Closet and into the Public Eye.
V. CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES.
Introduction.
Conformity and Activism: What does Democratic Citizenship Require? Aristotle, THE BASIS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE from THE POLITICS.
Alexis De Tocqueville, RESPECT FOR LAW IN THE UNITED STATES and THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY, from DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA.
Henry David Thoreau, CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.
Mahatma Ghandi, LETTER TO LORD IRWIN.
PUBLIC STATEMENT BY EIGHT ALABAMA CLERGYMEN.
Martin Luther King, LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL.
Christine Woyshner, MOTHERHOOD, ACTIVISM, AND SOCIAL REFORM.
Julie Quiroz-Martinez, LET FREEDOM ROLL.
Douglas Henton, John Melville, Kim Walesh, THE RISE OF THE NEW CIVIC REVOLUTIONARIES: ANSWERING THE CALL TO STEWARDSHIP IN OUR TIMES.
What is the Scope of Government Regulation I?
Legislating Information, Guns, and Tobacco. Bill Nelson, THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY.
John Poindexter, THE NEED FOR INFORMATION AWARENESS.
Paul Starobin, DAWN OF THE DADDY STATE.
Ray C. Spencer, CAN WE CURB THE PRIVACY INVADERS?
American Library Association, RESOLUTION ON THE USA PATRIOT ACT AND RELATED MEASURES THAT INFRINGE ON THE RIGHTS OF LIBRARY USERS.
Elizabeth Swazey, ON WOMEN AND HANDGUNS.
Robert Goldwin, GUN CONTROL IS CONSTITUTIONAL.
RESPONSES TO ROBERT GOLDWIN.
Screen shot: WOMEN AGAINST GUN CONTROL HOMEPAGE.
2 Screen shots: National Rifle Association: DON'T EDIT THE BILL OF RIGHTS.
Douglas Bettcher and Chitra Subramaniam, THE NECESSITY OF GLOBAL TOBACCO REGULATIONS.
Walter E. Williams, NAZI TACTICS.
Visual Conversations 5: The Varied Faces of Activism.
What is the Scope of Government Regulation II?
Who is Watching What We Eat?
Eric Schlosser, FAST FOOD NATION.
Charles Stein, IN A SUPERSIZED WORLD, REGULATORY INDIGESTION.
Ninos P. Malek, FAST FOOD AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
Susan Llewelyn, THOSE EXTRA POUNDS: ARE THEY GOVERNMENT'S BUSINESS?
Walter E.Williams, WHOSE BUSINESS IS IT?
James Matorin, OBESITY AWARENESS CAMPAIGN NEEDED, BUT REGULATIONS WON'T CURB FAST FOOD.
How Does Social Class Affect Crime and Punishment? Ed Mead, REFLECTIONS ON CRIME AND CLASS.
Christian Parenti, CRIME AS SOCIAL CONTROL.
Patrick Leahy, CONGRESS SHOULD PASS LEGISLATION TO LOWER FEDERALSENTENCES FOR CRACK COCAINE OFFENDERS.
Larry D. Thompson, CONGRESS SHOULD NOT PASS LEGISLATION TO LOWER FEDERAL SENTENCES FOR CRACK COCAINE OFFENDERS.
Jeffrey H. Reiman, from THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET PRISON.
Richard Johnston, THE BATTLE AGAINST WHITE-COLLAR CRIME.
VI. SCIENCE AND SOCIETY.
Our Faith in Science.
Jonathan Swift, from GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, BOOK 3, CHAP 2.
Dorothy Nelkin, THE SCIENTIFIC MYSTIQUE.
Murial Lederman, SCIENCE IS A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE.
L.H. Neese, SCIENCE VS. RELIGION: THE CHALLENGE OF INTERPRETATION.
Is Genetic Engineering a Threat, or a Moral Imperative? Kenan Malik, THE MORAL CLONE.
Kenneth R. Weiss, IT CAME FROM THE GENE LAB.
David B Sandalow, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND WORLD HUNGER.
OPEN LETTER FROM WORLD SCIENTISTS TO ALL GOVERNMENTS CONCERNING GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS.
Richard Manning, SUPERORGANICS.
Ron Reagan, ADDRESS TO THE 2004 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION.
IMAGE: NANCY REAGAN AND MICHAEL J. FOX SUPPORT STEM CELL RESEARCH.
Steven Milloy, RON REAGAN WRONG ON STEM CELLS.
Richard M. Doerflinger, DON'T CLONE RON REAGAN'S AGENDA.
At What Price Wilderness? John Muir, SAVE HETCH HETCHY VALLEY.
Wallace Stegner, A WILDERNESS LETTER.
GREENPEACE HOMEPAGE.
William Cronon, THE TROUBLE WITH WILDERNESS.
Samuel P. Hays, RESPONSE TO WILLIAM CRONON.
Bill McKibben, THE PROBLEM WITH WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY.
Visual Conversations 6: Picturing the Landscape.